Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1906 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

New Republican Whip. Congressman James E. Watson of Indiana, the new whip of the house Republicans, is comparatively a young man to bear that honor, being but slightly over forty years old. Yet he has served long in congress, being now in his fifth term. When fresh out of college, a green lawyer at Rushville, In the Hoosier State, he' went into a campaign for congress pitted against the veteran Democrat, William S. Holman, famous as “the watchdog of the treasury.” Watson won out after a contest that is still, the talk of t the Sixth Indiana district. His election as whip means that one day he is like-

ly to go to the party leadership in the house, with prospects in time for the speakership. When it was first given out that he would succeeil Tawney as party whip some reference was made to the f;u-t that Watson was an ardent Methodist and that on two occasions lie had been state president of the Epworth league. Later it developed that he leads the choir in the First Methodist church of Rushville, where he lives, and that in this lie vies with James P. Goodrich, the Republican of Indiana, who leads the choir in his town. Governor In Wrong Pocket. 8. M. Griffith, water commissioner of Altoona, was coming up from Philadelphia a day or two ago, and two seats ahead of him In the car sat Governor Pennypacker. Their top coats hung side by side on the wall of the car. Suddenly the governor arose and began going through the pockets of Mr. Griffith’s coat. “Is there anything in that coat you would like to have?” asked the water commissioner, leaning forward. His excellency scowled at tills apparent impertinence, hut Mr. Griffith only smiled and nodded toward the coats. Still the governor did not seem to understand. “If there is I’ll be glad to get it for you,” added Mr. Griffith, still smiling affably. Then the governor “tumbled,” glanced at the coats, saw that he was in the wrong one and stammered an apology. —Pittsburg Dispatch. A Statesman's WhlElcers. Representative Graham of Pennsylvania has whiskers that do not meet at all points. There are too many intervals between them. Two of his colleagues were discussing him in the house lunch room. ’Tn my opinion," said one of them, “Graham's whiskers are punctuated too liberally.” “Yes,” said the other, who usc>d to be an editor, “they are what you might call double leaded Whiskers.” New York Times. Mutual Life’s New Head. Charles Augustus Peabody, who succeeded Richard A. McCurdy as president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, is a native of New York city, where he has practiced law for the past thirty years. It is said that the new head of the Mutual Life lacks that aggressiveness which characterIxes most insurance men. lie is fifty years of age. quiet of manner and speech and decidedly methodical in his business methods. Early in his legal career Mr. Peabody showed much Interest in the real

estate law and has ever since made that his specialty. He is recognised as an authority on the subject and for many years has been the representative of the William Waldorf Astor estate in this country. He is also a director of the Hamilton Fish estate. He Is a member of the directorate of the Astor National bank, Delaware and Hudson company, Farmers’ Loan and Trust company, Illinois Central Railroad company, National Bank of Commerce and Union Pacific railway.

JAMES E. WATSON.

CHARGES A. PEABODY.